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First things first – let’s get some of the myths about Martín Ramírez straight – he wasn’t mute, at the time of his committal he was very likely not severely mentally ill, and the Freudian interpretation of a sexualised meaning to his many drawings of trains and tunnels is highly likely to be erroneous and, in the cold light of meaningful biography, wildly out of context...


Martín Ramírez on Artsy - https://www.artsy.net/artist/martin-ramirez


Cover image - Martín Ramírez - Untitled (Four animals) - C.1953



Reading List


Martín Ramírez - Framing his life and art. Victor M. Espinosa. ISBN 978-1-4773-0775-5


Martín Ramírez. Brook Davis Anderson. ISBN-13: 978-0-9778028-1-4


Outsider Art. Visionary Worlds and Trauma. Daniel Wojcik. ISBN 9781496808066


Groundwaters. A Century of Art by Self Taught and Outsider Artists. Charles Russell. ISBN 978-3-7913-4490-4


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